Chapter 2943: The Tree of a Thousand

"Swear to the moon? Does it need to be so serious?"

The black-haired sorceress raised an eyebrow at Xia De, but seeing that Xia De was truly that serious, she nodded lightly:

"I can, but you must first answer me one question: if it is really so dangerous, why bring me here? If you didn't bring me here, I wouldn't know about this old professor, nor would I hear your conversation."

"Because this matter should not be hidden from you."

Xia De answered:

"I am not worried about you knowing my plan. I even want you to know that I will not be content with just finding the tree that your corpse turned into with Miss Danister more than thirty years later, and then I, holding the cat, and Miss Danister, who is crying, burn the tree together."

"Mortals are destined to die."

"Yes, but I need you to help me, Helena Carter."

Addressing her directly by name was very impolite, and this was also the first time Xia De had done so. He stared at the black-haired sorceress standing under the umbrella with him in the rain, his voice slow but very firm:

"I need you to help me in the future. I need you to stand by Miss Danister and me in the future, and fight against the destined end together with us. I don't care what you think. Maybe what I am saying now is very strange, but, Madam, whether you will open your eyes again in the future is not decided by you, it is decided by me.

After all, you yourself said that you should have passed away by then."

The thirteenth-ring sorceress had experienced more stories than the young Outsider, and more than one person had spoken to her in a tougher and more vicious tone. She did not make any concessions because of Xia De's words, narrowing her eyes slightly as she stared back at him under the umbrella.

After a full three minutes, she said softly:

"I swear to the moon that I will not take the initiative to find this old professor today in any way. But Xia De Hamilton, do you hope that I will be active in the future really just because I am a thirteenth-ring sorceress?"

"Of course, it is also for Miss Danister. You still owe her an answer. Why did you leave without saying goodbye back then?"

So the sorceress laughed, and the way her eyes curved was definitely not faked:

"Watching a young person like you clumsily explain yourself is also the reason why I insist on working as a teacher at the academy."

Xia De didn't know what kind of thoughts she had seen through, so he took the initiative to ask:

"Then if I really follow my plan, not changing the past but starting from the future, when you really open your eyes and see us, will you blame me for making you reappear?"

"No."

"Then can you imagine at this moment what your mood will be when you see Miss Danister and me?"

Xia De asked, and the black-haired sorceress patted Xia De's shoulder with her free right hand:

"Is your desire for revenge that strong?"

As she spoke, she held Xia De's hand and continued to walk forward. Their voices were gradually drowned out by the sound of the rain:

"Is the situation in your era really so critical that even Danister cannot handle it?"

"Even if she lifts the curse now, it's not enough... Speaking of which, a small matter happened on our side recently: the first librarian of St. Byrons traveled through time from the Fifth Era to our era."

"Oh?"

She turned her head and winked at Xia De:

"When you leave in a while, I'll go to 1854 with you."

"?"

This was not Xia De hearing wrong, nor was Miss Carter joking with Xia De. After Xia De confirmed it several times, he finally confirmed on the carriage out of the city that this lady really intended to go to the future again.

"Didn't I tell you before that although I have passed away in your era, I intend to help you when you have the decisive battle in the Vista woodlands?"

The sorceress asked:

"So I have long thought about how to travel through time again. In order to prevent the birth of new paradox bugs, the tree hole I used certainly cannot be used again. But after all, I have been to the future once, and I have you, a special existence, who can carry information from different time and space.

Based on these premises, plus some of my gains in the Vista woodlands, I created a summoning method similar to a projection state. Of course, this method also requires you to find a relic in your era that has the effect of 'summoning people from the past' to cooperate."

"Should the Angel-level relic 【Poetry Cards】 work?"

This was a relic obtained from Laplace Howard during the Green Lake incident. Xia De originally planned to use this relic to contact Miss Felianna, but because of the council's venue and Miss Isabella's hair as a marker, it mistakenly led him to contact Adele from the past for the first time.

Now that relic was being contained by the 【Witch Council】, and it would be quite easy to borrow it.

"Of course it can. Is this relic in your hands? Whether this method works or not also needs to be tested. We can't wait until the time when I am truly needed to try it. So, why can't it be today?"

"Do you also want to see Miss Olanod?"

Xia De had already roughly introduced the witch from the Fifth Era, so the current librarian also had a preliminary understanding of her:

"Just curious. Such opportunities are rare."

"So for this, you agreed to go see Miss Danister?"

"Wait a minute, me going to your era does not mean I want to see Danister."

She gave such an inequality with a smile, and then rested her chin on her hand, looking at the rainy evening view outside the carriage window. The midsummer city turned gray in this rain. Xia De certainly would not oppose the sudden idea of the sorceress. Since Helena Carter's end was already doomed, Xia De would certainly satisfy her slight wishes.

If it was just using the power of the relic to perform an approximate projection summoning, it would not have too much impact on the stability of time. And once Miss Helena Carter truly appeared in 1854, then who she wanted to see and who she didn't want to see, strictly speaking, was not entirely up to her.

Although Xia De did not intend to defy the lady's own thoughts, sometimes accidents always come unexpectedly.

The carriage sent the two to a small path outside the city in the rain. The coachman was very curious about what this man and woman wanted to do entering the forest in the evening, so he advised them not to spend the night in the woods.

And then the thirteenth-ring sorceress flew over the forest holding Xia De, who had turned into a silver cat. The Outsider sadly discovered that his degree of rejection toward turning into a cat was no longer as strong as it was at the beginning.

He was very familiar with the location given by Professor Yuke Wood, so under his guidance, the two reached the destination deep in the woodlands in only twenty minutes:

"Land now. If we fly directly over that area, we won't see anything. We must walk along the path to truly reach there."

So when the black-haired sorceress's long boots touched the ground, she discovered that there was indeed a clear path in the dense forest as Xia De had said.

The cat jumped out of her arms and turned back into human form. The two walked more than twenty steps forward along the path, and after pushing aside the lush summer grass, they saw the clearing.

The circular clearing had an area larger than St. Therese Square. Opposite the clearing were five huge thrones as if prepared for giants, with the one in the center being the tallest.

And behind the thrones, the tallest tree the two had seen in this woodland so far seemed to be inserted directly into the rainy clouds.

And when the drizzling raindrops fell from the gaps in the canopy, the "corpses" tied by their necks with tree vines and hung under the canopy also swayed with the wind passing through the forest.

The number of "corpses" was so huge, and the canopy was so large, that this scene looked like thousands of people hanging themselves under this giant tree at the same time.

"No, those are not corpses. Those people are all still alive."

The black-haired lady reminded Xia De softly, but the people hanging under the tree were basically no different from being dead. Although their souls still existed and their bodies were maintained by the vitality of the tree, they closed their eyes and didn't even breathe. Xia De's "Heart of Stone" couldn't even hear the heartbeat of anyone hanging under the tree.

There was no such "scenery" here more than thirty years later, so Xia De wanted to get closer to see what was going on with those "corpses." But suddenly, the lady beside him reached out to support him. Turning his head to look, Miss Carter was covering her chest with her left hand, breathing heavily with a very uncomfortable expression.

The blue veins on her fair forehead bulged. At the same time, when she touched Xia De, Xia De clearly felt that the spirit in her body seemed to be suppressed, and her overall sense of power was declining.

"What's wrong?"

He immediately supported the sorceress and retreated from the clearing back to the path, so Miss Carter's symptoms were immediately relieved.

She took a few more deep breaths, calmed the rush of her spirit that had recovered from a state of silence, and then cast the water-avoidance spell that had been interrupted just now:

"Let's stay further away, and talk under the tree over there."

She didn't let Xia De waste gold to summon a camp. After reaching the big tree by the path, she leaned directly against the tree. The rain had already soaked her clothes in the moment just now, so Xia De reached out and summoned flames to steam them dry for her, while the sorceress took off her beige sun hat and held it in her arms:

"I probably understand the situation here, and I also know the whereabouts of the person you are looking for."

She turned her head to look at Xia De, who was manipulating the flames:

"All the people hanging on that tree are time-cursed people like me. That tree is absorbing the time curses of those people.

The tree vines hanging around their necks come from the tree itself. After a long process, the tree will suck the time curses in those people's bodies clean, and then the bones that fall to the ground are probably the nutrients for this area." ===== CHAPTER 2944 =====